Michael H. Sandfær Larsen

Current

Senior Project Manager at Vestas

Past

Principal Program Manager for NextWave TDtv at NextWave Wireless / IPWireless
Program Manager for 3G-Chipset Program at Texas Instruments
Program Manager for Protocal Stack at Texas Instruments

Project Manager for Smartphone Siemens SX1 at Siemens Mobile
Project Leader at Siemens Mobile
Software Engineer at Bosch Telecom / Siemens Mobile
Software Engineer at Dator
Software Engineer at Beologic / IAR Systems
System & Software Engineer at ABB Signal / Adtranz Signal / Bombardier Transportation

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Education

Business Institute, Aalborg
Aalborg Universitet
Vestsjællands Handelshøjskolecenter (1st part), Handels- & Ingeniørskole in Herning (2nd part)

Ingeniørhøjskolen Vestjysk Teknikum

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Industry

Wireless

Michael H. Sandfær Larsen’s Summary

Strong Senior Program- and Project Manager with technical and management background from both technology- and product oriented international companies within the wireless telecommunication and IT-industry.

Holding an E-MBA in Management of Technology and Business Development, a B.Sc.E.E. in Data Communications (Teknikumingeniør), and a Graduated Diploma in Business Administration, Majoring in Marketing Management (HD-Afsætning).

Have, with excellence, led program execution under extreme schedule pressure and challenging organization structures in global organizations within Siemens Mobile Phones, Texas Instruments, and NextWave Wireless.

Have strong competence and interest in bringing both emerging and mature technologies, product and services to market.

A proactive, structured, and analytic individual, with a result-, international-, and agile- oriented mindset proven at strategic, tactical, and operational level

Michael H. Sandfær Larsen’s Specialties:

Program Manager / International Organizations,
Strategy / Risk Management,
Organizational Development / Telecommunications,
Facilitation / Process Optimization,
Working Processes / Agile Methods,
Change Management / IT-processing,
Vendor Management / Outsourcing,

Michael H. Sandfær Larsen’s Experience

Senior Project Manager

Vestas

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Principal Program Manager for NextWave TDtv

NextWave Wireless / IPWireless

(Wireless industry)

August 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Overall responsible for software and system program management for NextWave TDtv which includes end-to-end mobile TV solution from Content Delivery System (BM-SC) over TDtv network (INC & NodeB) to Mobile TV MBMS Player on handset.
Program Manager for 3G-Chipset Program

Texas Instruments

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Overall responsible for software program management for the lead 3G-chipset program. The 3G-chipset program was a large geographically diverse program in the 3G area within Texas Instruments Wireless Terminal Business Unit with worldwide participants from 4 continents and included extensive international travel.

Responsibilities:
• Overall responsible for software program management for the lead 3G-chipset program which included both Modem SW and Application SW.
• Program wise responsible for 10 project managers and over 150+ developers from development teams within Texas Instrument worldwide (Denmark, France, Germany, India, Japan, and US).
• Responsible for SW development process and milestones for the 3G-chipset program.

Key Results:
• Leading the SW and System part of the lead 3G-chipset program from end of technology phase through product development and delivery to first handset customer under extreme schedule pressure and challenging global organization structures.
Program Manager for Protocal Stack

Texas Instruments

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

May 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Overall responsible for program management for bringing Texas Instruments protocol stack from technology phase, through development phase to delivery of protocol stack to a 2.75G-chipset platform program and a 3G-chipset program.

Responsibilities:
• Overall responsible for program management for protocol stack program.
• Program wise responsible for delivering and integrating protocol stack to a 2.75G-chipset platform and a 3G-chipset program in parallel
• Program wise responsible for 5 project managers and over 70+ developers from development teams within Texas Instrument (Denmark and Germany).
• Setting up multisite development environment for the involved teams in Denmark and Germany, rolling-out CMMI level 2 processes, and ensuring compliancy with ISO 9001.

Key Results:
• Setting up multisite development between Aalborg and Berlin including change management of people during merging the development teams in Denmark and Germany into one multisite team.
Project Manager for Smartphone Siemens SX1

Siemens Mobile

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — May 2004 (3 years )

Overall responsible for software project management for Siemens SX1 smartphone from concept phase to launch on the market.
Have also been overall software project manager on smartphone technology project based on the Microsoft Mobile and proprietary platforms.

Responsibilities:
• Overall responsible project wise for software for Siemens SX1 smart phone which included Modem, Application, PC-Suite, SDK and 3rd party applications.
• Project wise responsible for 10 project managers and over 100+ developers from development teams within Siemens Mobile Phones (Denmark and Germany).

Key Result:
• Siemens SX1 was realized in a multi-cultural-, result- and network oriented project organization across sites and line organization within the Siemens Mobile Phones organization with high involvement of partners such as TI, Nokia, and Symbian
• Building up and leading a large multi-culture, multi-national, and multi-site software project teams for the teams involved in the project.
Project Leader

Siemens Mobile

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2000 — May 2001 (8 months)

Responsible for bringing the Siemens S40 phone software from development phase to launch on the market.
Software Engineer

Bosch Telecom / Siemens Mobile

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Worked in protocol stack team. Areas of responsibility were SMS and Cell Broadcast and field test approvals of two parallel running programs (Siemens S40 and Siemens C30).
Software Engineer

Dator

(Industrial Automation industry)

April 1999 — August 1999 (5 months)

Worked with software development for logistics solutions.
Software Engineer

Beologic / IAR Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1997 — March 1999 (2 years )

Worked with upgrade of the product visualSTATE from versions 3 to version 4. visualSTATE is a state machine graphical design tool which can generate highly compact C code for embedded systems. Main area of responsibility was upgrading the automatic C code generation and introduction of UML compliant state machine standard in the product.
Worked as a consultant at Bang & Olufsen for half a year, and was involved in porting the Bang & Olufsen’s proprietary RTOS and drivers to a Hitachi H8 based platform.
System & Software Engineer

ABB Signal / Adtranz Signal / Bombardier Transportation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABB; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

June 1995 — March 1997 (1 year 10 months)

Worked in product development for security and information system for railway operations.
Main area of responsibility was porting of a SW-platform from Intel 8085 to Motorola 68302 platform and development of new drivers and Level 2 (HDLC) and Level 3 protocols on the Motorola 68302 platform.

Michael H. Sandfær Larsen’s Education

Business Institute, Aalborg

Top Governance , 2008 — 2009
Aalborg Universitet

Executive MBA , Master in Management of Technology (MMT) , 2000 — 2002

Focus on Technology, Innovation and Change Management
See http://www.mmt.aau.dk for additional info

Activities and Societies:

Thesis in Agile Project Leadership (APL) - A practical oriented philosophy of project management, and is a superstructure on the philosophy of Agile SW Development (ASD). ASD together with APL is targeted at organizations where competition in the global market creates extreme pressure to develop product, where the organization have to face with new tasks in a context, which can be described best as an imperfect world with complex environment of high speed, change, and uncertainty.
Vestsjællands Handelshøjskolecenter (1st part), Handels- & Ingeniørskole in Herning (2nd part)

Graduated Diploma in Business Administration , Majoring in Marketing Management (HD Afsætning) , 1995 — 1999
Ingeniørhøjskolen Vestjysk Teknikum

B.Sc.E.E. , Majoring in Data Communication (Teknikumingeniør) , 1992 — 1995